In the past month, Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, comScore and Nielsen released data that demonstrate increased smartphone penetration in the United States. More than 100 million U.S. mobile subscribers are using smartphones in Q1 2012, up…
Since our first coverage of local Q&A app LocalMind, we recently had the chance to catch up with its founders about its new changes to the service. This comes a few weeks after its v2.0 release and one year after…
Yesterday, we held a webcast to talk about the top 15 trends in local. These are the things we're paying most attention to on a daily basis, and as we build the content around the upcoming ILM East show. It's…
Fifteen game-changing trends are happening right now in local media, and our analyst team discussed each one in today's webinar ahead of our ILM East conference. Here's the rundown: Curated commerce or the place where social, mobile and video intersect.…
Today local search agency 15 Miles released its annual Local Search Usage study. Now in its fifth wave, the comScore administered study (n=4,000) also included Localeze's participation for the first time. It's quite a "data dump" with lots of different…
Valpak, a direct marketing company, redesigned its iPhone and Android apps as its app downloads have tripled since 2010. In addition, the coupon company launched its first iPad tablet app that enables users to print coupons to wireless printers or…
As part of Google's GoMo initiative (past coverage here), it's trying to support and evangelize omptimized mobile Web pages for businesses. The idea is that a more optimized and user-friendly mobile Web will draw more people there, as opposed to…
Mobile local loyalty play Punchcard announced that after less than a year, it has rounded the corner on 147,000 merchants in Southern California. Founded and led by local veteran Andy Steuer, the company recognizes the challenges in reaching time-starved SMBs.…
One of the most common tasks users perform on AT&T Interactive's YP.com is browsing local eateries in search of a good meal. Thanks to a new partnership with NYC start-up SinglePlatform, this task becomes easier with the addition of local restaurant menus…
Mobile app analytics provider Flurry is out with its most recent data dump, showing that mobile has a disproportionate imbalance (when compared with other media) between usage and ad dollars. Specifically there is a 23-to-1 difference in the share of…
Headlines in the media world have been full of analysis about Barry Diller’s eight-figure investment in Aereo. Aereo plans to offer MDU (multiple dwelling unit) residents in New York City the chance to view their local, over-the-air TV stations over…
Mobile local ad network xAd just released its Q4 Mobile Insights Report, detailing the activity seen on its network. Like its Q3 report (covered here), it further supports the growth and the opportunity in mobile local search. XAd, for those…
80 percent of respondents in a recent JiWire Q4 report state a preference for locally relevant ads over non-local advertising. The report examined three emerging trends in the location and mobile markets: response to location-based messaging, location specific shopping behaviors,…
After some time passed since we last covered Fanminder, we caught up with CEO Paul Rosenfeld last week in advance of yesterday's announcement of new funding and its 2.0 release. First, for those unfamiliar, Fanminder is a "freemium" SMB marketing…
Movl, a TV app maker, received $500,000 from billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban, to help fund business development as the company launches three new features. Movl designs multiscreen, multidevice apps to enhance the connected-TV viewing experience. Now Movl is…
We've long looked at the online-offline gap. This comes down to the challenge in connecting the dots between increasing levels of online research and the sheer volume of offline spending (95 percent of U.S. retail). This is ROBO: research online…
In an effort to get "back in the game" for briefings with interesting mobile start-ups, this week I had the chance to catch up with Trover cofounder and CEO Jason Karas about some new features. If you haven't heard of…
As part of the information overload that is Facebook's long awaited S-1 filing, the company announced it is up to 845 million active global users (defined as monthly users). That's a 39 percent year-over-year jump. That total has slowly been…
In the immediate wake of our report on Google mobile ad revenues, TechCrunch reports today that the search giant saw a 2x year-over-year increase in mobile search ad requests (the largest source of its mobile ad revenues) in 2011. Our…
Throughout 2012, we're beefing up our editorial pipeline to get more reports out, on a more frequent basis. This is especially true in mobile, where there is such a great deal of activity and data coming out of the quickly…
